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sometimes after, and occasionally both before and after planting. 
Perhaps the most common practice is to distribute the fertilizer and 
bed on it, then plant. Ordinarily only one application is made, 
about 200 pounds per acre. See Table XI . 
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OPERATIONS ON INDIVIDUAL CROPS 
The crops most commonly grown in this region are cotton, corn. 
sweet potatoes, and cowpeas. These four crops are grown by nearly 
every farmer. Most farmers, however, grow other crops also, though 
the acreage is generally small. Thus, in addition to the above- 
mentioned staple crops, the farmer may grow oats or meadow hay 
as feed crops, and sometimes sorghum or peanuts. A few make 
sorghum sirup for market, and in certain communities peanuts 
are grown to a considerable extent for the market. On some of these 
farms sugar cane is grown for sirup. All of this sirup, except what 
is needed for home consumption, is sold. Occasionally watermelons 
are grown in small areas. Cotton is the only money crop of conse- 
quence generally grown. Occasionally a farmer will grow native 
